By AFRO Staff
Letitia Mae Short Maddox, a stay-at-home mom, died September 4 at the age of 95. The cause of death was undisclosed.
Maddox, daughter of the late James Edward Short and Hattie Pauline Bundy...

By AFRO Staff
Rev. Mary W. Conaway, former Register of Wills for Baltimore City and member of the Conaway political dynasty died Aug. 30. She was 75.
Mary Conaway (born January 26, 1943), served as Baltimore’s...

By Joi Thomas, Special to the AFRO
On July 19, the Baltimore church and gospel community lost an icon with the death of Thomas “Tommy” Randall Roberts, Sr. at the age of 72.
Roberts, born October 10,...

By AFRO Staff
Jordan Martin McNair, a promising collegiate football at the University of Maryland, collapsed suddenly during football practice on May 29 and died on June 13. He was 19.
McNair, the son of Tonya...

By AFRO Staff
Min. John Battle, a longtime master barber and the father of former AFRO reporter and Baltimore playwright Ursula Battle, died May 27. He was 75
The viewing for Minister Battle will be held...

By AFRO Staff
Dr. Lawrence Bell, Jr., who operated a successful dental office at the corner of Auchentoroly Terrace and Gwynns Falls Parkway in West Baltimore for decades and was patriarch of a political family,...

By AFRO Staff
Cardrienne Perrin Griffin was born on September 18, 1933, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia State University in Elementary Education, in 1954, and later served...

Rev. Dr. Theodore Clifton Jackson, Jr., Pastor Emeritus of Gillis Memorial Christian Community Church, in the Park Heights community of Northwest Baltimore, died Feb. 17. He was 84.
Jackson, the son of Rev. Theodore C....

Frederick Michael Tillman, an entrepreneur in the medical field for several years, died on Christmas Day of congestive heart failure. He was 72.
Tillman was born February 11, 1945, the oldest son of Frederick Thomas...

Rihanna refused to perform for the 2019 SuperBowl Halftime show. Cardi B quickly joined her in support of Colin Kaepernick’s taking a knee to bring attention to rampant police brutality in this country. Should the protest affect SuperBowl entertainment, or is that taking it too far?

The Afro-American has crusaded for racial equality and economic advancement for Black Americans for 125 years. In existence since August 13, 1892, John Henry Murphy Sr., a former slave who gained freedom following the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, started the paper when he merged his church publication... read more